Recent Posts Tagged With compliance

• University of Alabama killer had record of death in past

  Posted on Monday February 15th, 2010 at 01:52 pm in compliance personal background checks volunteers health care industry educational institutions

  A biology professor charged in the killings of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was initially a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor and killed her brother in 1986 after firing...

• Utah Volunteers may have to pay for mandated background checks if they wish to volunteer

  Posted on Monday February 1st, 2010 at 12:43 pm in compliance volunteers concerned parents educational institutions non-profit associations

  According to a recent story in The Salt Lake Tribune The House Education Committee voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a bill that would expand the criminal background checks required of school employees to include volunteers. HB81 would req...

• New Bill Prevents Employers From Using Credit Scores During Background Checks

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm in compliance discrimination job seekers privacy rights

  Jobseekers worried that bad credit scores may show up during pre-employment background checks and hurt their chances of finding work may not have to worry much longer. A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives – The &l...

• Verify Employment Eligibility with U.S. Passport Card

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 02:26 pm in compliance for employers non-profit associations

  On July 14th, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security began producing and issuing the U.S. Passport Card as an alternative to the traditional passport. The Passport Card was created to expedite document processing at land and sea ports of entry. ...

• Lax School Background Checks put Children at Risk…

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 02:21 pm in compliance educational institutions non-profit associations

  On August 11th, ClarksvilleOnline, published a commentary from a concerned parent about a 120 day sentence a teacher received for raping a student from Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tennessee. If thorough background checks had been conducted...

• Employment Eligibility: More Bosses Arrested for I-9 Compliance Violations...

  Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 06:43 pm in compliance for employers

  I-9 compliance and employment eligibility is a paramount issue for employers today and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to discipline violators who knowingly and unkowingly hire illegal workers and violate employment...

• L.A. Hospital Fails to Act on Criminal Background Checks

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 05:39 pm in compliance for employers

  A story featured in the L.A. Times (July 16, 2008) should be a wake up call to all employers who do not conduct background checks on current employees. Sixteen employees were suspended from Martin Luther King Jr. – Harbor hospital when coun...